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The Establishment and Development of Asylum Policies in East Central Europe
Hoffstädt, Jord Malte ; Vykoukal, Jiří (advisor) ; Najšlová, Lucia (referee)
In the light of the current refugee crisis in the European Union, and the remarkably critical stance the East Central European states are taking in Brussels, this research contributes to a broader understanding of the Czech Republic, Slovakia, Hungary and Poland's policies towards refugees. By scrutinizing the process of developing refugee policies during the 1990s and 2000s, the research will demonstrate that the countries united in the V4 platform in their first years of transition generously contributed to international refugee protection. Steep increase of asylum applicants and negotiation talks with the EU in the late 1990s brought various changes to the refugee policies in the region, marked by more closely defining and the enhancing of asylum seekers' and recognized refugees' rights, but also by lower refugee recognition rates. Accession to the European Union ultimately resulted in more complete and comprehensive asylum policies in line with the Common European Asylum System (CEAS). However, the V4 states maintained rather restrictive interpretations of the European policy, explained by the pressure the CEAS places on the states at the EU's external border and lower economic capacity to accommodate large numbers of refugees. Recent developments are mostly the result of political exploitation...
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Sharing the Refugee Burden through Relocation: Attitudes of the States of the Visegrad Group
Franta, Jakub ; Váška, Jan (advisor) ; Najšlová, Lucia (referee)
This bachelor thesis deals with refugee burden-sharing by mandatory relocation mechanism in the European Union and with positions of the states of the Visegrad Group on the issue. The topic is limited to 2015 in terms of time. Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland and Slovakia, that is to say, were prominent opponents of the refugee relocation plan as one of the proposed and finally adopted solutions to the so-called refugee crisis in the EU. The aim of this thesis is to answer the question whether the states attitudes on sharing the refugee burden undergone some evolution and whether publicly declared reasons for these attitudes correspond to the empirical situation. For this purpose is provided a reconstruction of the most significant milestones of adoption of the relocation mechanism, including the attitudes and publicly declared reasons of the Visegrad states, which are then analyzed in terms of the empirical situation. The outcome of the thesis is that states of the Visegrad Group held integrated negative attitude consistently during 2015 with only one exception - Poland agreement with the proposal submitted to the European Council on 22 September - and most of the reasons given for this negative attitude are really based on the empirical situation, though always only in certain aspects of the...
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The United Nation Convention on the Rights of the Child in the case of refugee children
Asfour, Sarah ; Pazlarová, Hana (advisor) ; Matoušek, Oldřich (referee)
This Bachelor thesis addresses the issue of the basic human rights of Refugee Children guaranteed to every child by UN Convention on the Rights of the Child adopted in 1989. The thesis describes the processes and situations in which a Refugee Child who is accompanied by family members or who is an Unaccompanied Minor goes through during the proceeding of International Protection in the European countries. The thesis focuses only on the articles of Convention that are applicable to crucial problems in the current situation of Refugee Children.
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Immigration policy of the European union
Rýznarová, Ludmila ; Angelovská, Olga (advisor) ; Dobiášová, Karolína (referee)
This thesis deals with a topic of immigration policy of the European Union of the 21st century. One cannot write about this topic regardless of the migration wave and refugee crisis that has sparked the debate about EU's immigration policy function - and EU as a whole - in general. The aim of this thesis is to give a reader profound view on the topic of immigration policy of the EU in the context of the immigration crisis, to present reasons why is this happening as well as the consequences, and last but not least, to give an solution that could help EU to deal with crisis and its origins. The thesis handles with the attitudes and opinions of EU member states and the EU as a whole, discusses the evolution of EU immigration policy and its current state. In a part it is oriented on asylum policy as a part of immigration policy and the question of supra-nationalization of the EU's immigration policy. The last chapter offers following steps which the EU should take, and which lead to solving the crisis or at least alleviation.
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Teaching of Multicultural education on the primary and grammar school
Skuhrovcová, Jana ; Mazáčová, Nataša (advisor) ; Váňová, Miroslava (referee)
Annotation: The thesis is devoted to the Multicultural education on the Czech primary and grammar schools. The thesis is separated into two parts. First theoretic part is focused on the idea of multicultural awareness, definition of the Multicultural education and its interpretation by the Framework Education Programme. Professional education of designated specialists in this area. Teacher's and pupil's ethnical opinion. Study of diverse organizations focused on the Multicultural education and their study curriculum. The second part of my thesis is quality research, which is based on semi-structured interviews with four education specialists teaching Multicultural education on primary and grammar schools in Prague and Česká Lípa within the Civic education. Thesis base is about real level of Multicultural education on the selected schools, evaluating how teachers incorporating teaching aids and examining schools cooperation with organizations providing multicultural programs and teaching aids. Another goal is find out whether teachers have a professional education in this area. Another important focus of my research is examine the teachers own attitude and dealing with xenophobia and racism during the lessons and their ethical values.. The main goal of this thesis is to compare level of the Multicultural...
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Forming of Socialdemocratic Post-February Exile (1948-1953)
Horák, Pavel ; Čechurová, Jana (advisor) ; Burešová, Jana (referee) ; Kuklík jun., Jan (referee)
HORÁK, Pavel, Počátky poúnorového sociálnědemokratického exilu (1948-1953) [Forming of socialdemocratic post-February exile (1948-1953)], Praha, Karlova univerzita, Filozofická fakulta, Ústav českých dějin, 2014, 392 s. Vedoucí diplomové práce Doc. PhDr. Jana Čechurová, Ph.D. The study aims to answer questions in which way was formed socialdemocratic exile party in the years 1948-1953. It studies who, how and why could have or wanted to have been involved in this process. The topic is viewed from the institutional perspective of an "exile party". It analyses how was the party organised and negotiated. Besides personal stories in the background of refugee everydayness it also looks into what it meant to a be a "social democrat" in "post-February exile" and whether the "exile party" created its own sphere of communicative space for formulating program and various demands and initiatives. The work focuses on the formative period of "exile". It is delimited by the year 1953 which proved a long-term, bipolar character of the world order. The hypothesis is the statement that the "exile socialdemocratic party" was formed in the frame of Czechoslovakian post-February migration as an institution which was creating its own communication, social and migration networks based on specific criteria. At the same...
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Situation of Serbian Refugees from Croatia and Bosnia in Serbia (2002 - 2012): Case Study Grupa 484
Mádlová, Tereza ; Králová, Kateřina (advisor) ; Šístek, František (referee)
This work deals with Serbian refugees from Bosnia and Herzegovina and Croatia, who had gone to Serbia under the pressure of events taking place in the Balkans in the first half of the 90th years. Their number reached over 500,000. Initially, the state was paralyzed by internal social, political and economic problems. After 2000, the fall of Slobodan Milosevic's regime, the new government began to actively address the issue of refugees. They were looking for a concept that would best solve their situation. Finally in 2002, they found the way and defined the specific objectives of the government's in National Strategy for dealing with refugees and internally displaced persons. The returns to the country of origin that was expected to be the main solution did not accomplish according to plan, therefore, the government decided to focus on the integration of refugees into Serbian society. During the period 2002-2012 Serbia has managed to stabilize the situation and to drastically reduce the number of refugees. High influence should be admitted also to nonprofit sector. The paper pointed out this fact. Case study analyzes the activity of Grupa 484, which dealt with the issue of the refugees from the very beginning and its work has had an impact on the solution of the refugee situation in Serbia.
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The Shift in Canadian Immigration policy under the Conservative government of Stephen Harper
Žiga, Matúš ; Fiřtová, Magdalena (advisor) ; Kozák, Kryštof (referee)
In this bachelor thesis, titled "The Shift in Canadian Immigration policy under the Conservative government of Stephen Harper", are introduced and subsequently analyzed changes in the immigration policy of Canada that have been made under the government of conservative Prime Minister Stephen Harper (2006-2015). The aim of this work is to point out a fundamental change in the nature of immigration policy of Canada. The thesis of the work is: "Canada abandons the search for the perfect citizen and focuses on selecting an ideal worker." The first chapter of the thesis is a historical overview, which explains the role of immigration in Canadian society and major milestones in Canadian immigration policies before the Harper government. It also notes the most significant problems and challenges in this field Canada faced and were one of the causes of the current reform of the immigration system. A key part of the thesis is the second chapter, which analyzes the different changes in immigration policy, which took place under the government of Stephen Harper. Through entire chapter is demonstrated how the individual changes will transform the nature of Canadian immigration policy. The last chapter of this work analyzes the impact of implementing reforms to Canada's immigration system and society.
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Portugal and Jewish Refugees from Nazism
Kraftová, Pamela ; Binková, Simona (advisor) ; Grauová, Šárka (referee)
The subject of my bachelor's thesis is Portuguese attitude towards Jewish refugees during the Second World War. Portugal has in the course of time transformed from an inquisition-happy into a tolerant country. The rise of the German Nazi regime and the outbreak of Second World War had caused a diaspora which led Portugal into applying restrictive immigration and visa policies. After France lost the war Portugal has become one of few destinations and transfer points for refugees from Nazi occupied Europe. Thousands of Jewish refugees have found refuge in a country which was governed by an anti-liberal and non-democratic regime. The regime had a few common similarities with Third Reich such as tough anti-Communism and anti-liberalism. The absence of racism and anti-Semitism in "Estado Novo" was on the other hand the differentiation between those two regimes. This absence also enabled Jewish immigration into Portugal during 1930s and 1940s. The main focus of my thesis is the attitude of Salazar, Portuguese offices, the Portuguese public and foremost the Portuguese diplomacy towards persecuted Jews.
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Exodus of East German refugees in Prague 1989 and its reflexion in the official newspapers in GDR and CSSR
Procházková, Tereza ; Konrád, Ota (advisor) ; Šmidrkal, Václav (referee)
The bachelor thesis entitled "The East German Exodus in Prague in 1989 and its Reflection in the Official Press of the GDR and CSSR" deals with the development of the East German exodus in Prague in 1989 and its reflection in Rudé Právo and Neues Deutschland. The objective of the thesis is to outline the situation in the GDR during the Honecker era (1971-1989) and to introduce the related phenomenon of occupation of German embassies in the 1980s. The following part of the thesis discusses the individual development stages of the East German exodus in Prague in 1989. The final part of the thesis examines the reflection of the refugee phenomenon in the above mentioned periodicals in the period of September 5 to November 7, 1989.
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